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Chiropractic's Dirty Secret:
Neck Manipulation and Strokes
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
|Stroke from chiropractic neck manipulation occurs when an artery to the brain ruptures or becomes blocked by a clot as a result of being stretched. The injury often results from extreme rotation in which the practitioner's hands are placed on the patient's head in order to rotate the cervical spine by rotating the head [1]. The vertebral artery, which is shown in the picture to the right, is vulnerable because it winds around the topmost cervical vertebra (atlas) to enter the skull, so that any abrupt rotation may stretch the artery and tear its delicate lining. The anatomical problem is illustrated on page 7 of The Chiropractic Report, July 1999. A blood clot formed over the injured area may subsequently be dislodged and block a smaller artery that supplies the brain. Less frequently, the vessel may be blocked by blood that collects in the vessel wall at the site of the dissection [2].
Chiropractors would like you to believe that the incidence of stroke following neck manipulation is extremely small. Speculations exist that the risk of a serious complication due to neck manipulation are somewhere between one in 40,000 and one in 10 million manipulations. No one really knows, however, because (a) there has been little systematic study of its frequency; (b) the largest malpractice insurers won't reveal how many cases they know about; and (c) a large majority of cases that medical doctors see are not reported in scientific journals.
Published Reports
In 1992, researchers at the Stanford Stroke Center asked 486 California members of the American Academy of Neurology how many patients they had seen during the previous two years who had suffered a stroke within 24 hours of neck manipulation by a chiropractor. The survey was sponsored by the American Heart Association. A total of 177 neurologists reported treating 56 such patients, all of whom were between the ages of 21 and 60. One patient had died, and 48 were left with permanent neurologic deficits such as slurred speech, inability to arrange words properly, and vertigo (dizziness). The usual cause of the strokes was thought to be a tear between the inner and outer walls of the vertebral arteries, which caused the arterial walls to balloon and block the flow of blood to the brain. Three of the strokes involved tears of the carotid arteries [3]. In 1991, according to circulation figures from Dynamic Chiropractic, California had about 19% of the chiropractors practicing in the United States, which suggests that about 147 cases of stroke each year were seen by neurologists nationwide. Of course, additional cases could have been seen by other doctors who did not respond to the survey.
A 1993 review concluded that potential complications and unknown benefits indicate that children should not undergo neck manipulation [4].
Louis Sportelli, DC, NCMIC president and a former ACA board chairman contends that chiropractic neck manipulation is quite safe. In an 1994 interview reported by the Associated Press, he reacted to the American Heart Association study by saying, "I yawned at it. It's old news." He also said that other studies suggest that chiropractic neck manipulation results in a stroke somewhere between one in a million and one in three million cases [5]. The one-in-a-million figure could be correct if California's chiropractors had been averaging about 60 neck manipulations per week. Later that year, during a televised interview with "Inside Edition," Sportelli said the "worst-case scenario" was one in 500,000 but added: "When you weigh the procedure against any other procedure in the health-care industry, it is probably the lowest risk factor of anything." According to the program's narrator, Sportelli said that 90% of his patients receive neck manipulation.
In 1996, RAND issued a booklet that tabulated more than 100 published case reports and estimated that the number of strokes, cord compressions, fractures, and large blood clots was 1.46 per million neck manipulations. Even though this number appears small, it is significant because many of the manipulations chiropractors do should not be done. In addition, as the report itself noted, neither the number of manipulations performed nor the number of complications has been systematically studied [6]. Since some people are more susceptible than others, it has also been argued that the incidence should be expressed as rate per patient rather than rate per adjustment.
In 1996, the National Chiropractic Mutual Insurance Company (NCMIC), which is the largest American chiropractic malpractice insurer, published a report called "Vertebrobasilar Stroke Following Manipulation," written by Allen G.J. Terrett, an Australian chiropractic educator/researcher. Terrett based his findings on 183 cases of vertebrobasilar strokes (VBS) reported between 1934 and 1994. He concluded that 105 of the manipulations had been administered by a chiropractor, 25 were done by a medical practitioner, 31 had been done by another type of practitioner, and that the practitioner type for the remaining 22 was not specified in the report. He concluded that VBS is "very rare," that current pretesting procedures are seldom able to predict susceptibility, and that in 25 cases serious injury might have been avoided if the practitioner had recognized that symptoms occurring after a manipulation indicated that further manipulations should not be done [7].
A 1999 review of 116 articles published between 1925 and 1997 found 177 cases of neck injury associated with neck manipulation, at least 60% of which was done by chiropractors [8].
In 2001, NCMIC published a second edition of Terrett's book, titled, "Current Concepts: Vertebrobasilar Complications following Spinal Manipulation," which covered 255 cases published between 1934 and 1999 [9]. NCMIC's Web site claims that the book "includes an analysis of every known case related to this subject." That description is not true. It does not include many strokes that resulted in lawsuits against NCMIC policyholders but were not published in scientific journals. And it does not include the thoroughly documented case of Kristi Bedenbauer whose autopsy report I personally mailed to Terrett after speaking with him in 1995.
In 2001, Canadian researchers published a report about the relationships between chiropractic care and the incidence of vertebrovascular accidents (VBAs) due to vertebral artery dissection or blockage in Ontario, Canada, between 1993 and 1998. Using hospital records, each of 582 VBA cases was age- and sex-matched to four controls with no history of stroke. Health insurance billing records were used to document use of chiropractic services. The study found that VBA patients under age 45 were five times more likely than controls to (a) have visited a chiropractor within a week of the VBA and (b) to have had three or more visits with neck manipulations. No relationship was found after age 45. The authors discuss possible shortcomings of the study and urge that further research be done [10]. An accompanying editorial states that the data correspond to an incidence of 1.3 cases of vertebral artery dissection or blockage per 100,000 individuals receiving chiropractic neck manipulation, a number higher than most chiropractic estimates [11].
In 2001, British researchers reported on a survey in which all members of the Association of British Neurologists were asked to report cases referred to them of neurological complications occurring within 24 hours of neck manipulation over a 12-month period. The 35 reported cases included 7 strokes involving the vertebrobasilar artery and 2 strokes involving a carotid artery. None of the 35 cases were reported to medical journals [12]. Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter School of Sport and Health Sciences, believes that these results are very significant. In a recent commentary, he stated:
One gets the impression that the risks of spinal manipulation are being played down, particularly by chiropractors. Perhaps the best indication that this is true are estimates of incidence rates based on assumptions, which are unproven at best and unrealistic at worse. One such assumption, for instance, is that 10% of actual complications will be reported. Our recent survey, however, demonstrated an underreporting rate of 100%. This extreme level of underreporting obviously renders estimates nonsensical [13].
In 2002, researchers representing the Canadian Stroke Consortium reported on 98 cases in which external trauma ranging from "trivial" to "severe" was identified as the trigger of strokes caused by blood clots formed in arteries supplying the brain. Chiropractic-style neck manipulation was the apparent cause of 38 of the cases, 30 involving vertebral artery dissection and 8 involving carotid artery dissection. Other Canadian statistics indicate the incidence of ischemic strokes in people under 45 is about 750 a year. The researchers believe that their data indicate that 20% are due to neck manipulation, so there may be "gross underreporting" of chiropractic manipulation as a cause of stroke [14].
In 2003, another research team reviewed the records of 151 patients under age 60 with cervical arterial dissection and ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) from between 1995 and 2000 at two academic stroke centers. After an interview and a blinded chart review, 51 patients with dissection and 100 control patients were studied. Patients with dissection were more likely to have undergone spinal manipulation within 30 days (14% vs 3%). The authors concluded that spinal manipulation is associated with vertebral arterial dissection and that a significant increase in neck pain following neck manipulation warrants immediate medical evaluation [15].
In 2006, the Journal of Neurology published a German Vertebral Artery Dissection Study Group report about 36 patients who had experienced vertebral artery dissection associated with neck manipulation [16]. Twenty-six patients developed their symptoms within 48 hours after a manipulation, including five patients who got symptoms at the time of manipulation and four who developed them within the next hour. In 27 patients, special imaging procedures confirmed that blood supply had decreased in the areas supplied by the vertebral arteries as suggested by the neurological examinations. In all but one of the 36 patients, the symptoms had not previously occurred and were clearly distinguishable from the complaints that led them to seek manipulative care. This report is highly significant but needs careful interpretation. Although it is titled "Vertebral dissections after chiropractic neck manipulation . . . " only four of the patients were actually manipulated by chiropractors. Half were treated by orthopedic surgeons, five by a physiotherapist, and the rest by a neurologist, general medical practitioner, or homeopath. It is possible—although unlikely—that the nonchiropractors used techniques that were more dangerous than chiropractors use in North America. The authors suggested that the orthopedists' treatment was safer, but there is no way to determine this from their data. Regardless, the study supports the assertion that neck manipulation can cause strokes—which many chiropractors deny.
In 2006 Pediatrics Electronic Pages published the results of a comprehensive review of reports of adverse events associated with spinal manipulation of children who were eight years of age or younger. The seven cases classified as serious included a 3-month-old infant with died from subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding that compressed the brain) and two cases of atlas dislocation [17].
Two subsequent reports have added to chiropractic's denial. In the first study, 377 members of the British and Scottish Chiropractic Associations and more than 19,000 of their patients were asked whether complications had occurred following neck manipulations. No strokes were reported, but symptoms that may have indicated neurologic involvement—headache (reported in 3.9% of cases), numbness/tingling of the arms (1.3% of cases), and fainting/dizziness/lightheadedness (1.1% of cases) were reported. About 400 patients who discontinued treatment could not be reached for follow-up, so what happened to them is unknown [18]. The second study compared insurance billing records and hospital discharge records and concluded that (a) the incidence of strokes was following primary-care (medical) visits was similar to the incidence of strokes following chiropractic visits, and (b) therefore the strokes that occurred in chiropractic offices were not caused by the treatment they received [19]. However, the study is meaningless because—unlike the German Vertebral Artery Dissection Study Group—the researchers did not examine clinical records and were not able to determine whether the diagnoses they tabulated were accurate or whether the strokes were related to the type of manipulation [20].
Chiropractors have also argued that case-control studies provide evidence that neck manipulation and vertebral artery stroke are unrelated. These idea has been persuasively rebutted [21].
Are Complications Predictable?
Some chiropractors advocate "screening tests" with the hope of detecting individuals prone to stroke due to neck manipulation [22-24]. These tests, which include holding the head and neck in positions of rotation to see whether the patient gets dizzy, are not reliable, partly because manipulation can rotate the neck further than can be done with the tests. Listening over the neck arteries with a stethoscope to detect a murmur, for example, has not been proven reliable, though patients that have one should be referred to a physician. Vascular function tests in which the patient's head is briefly held in the positions used during cervical manipulation are also not reliable as a screen for high-risk patients because a thrust that further stretches the vertebral artery could still damage the vessel wall." In a chapter in the leading chiropractic textbook, Terrett and a colleague have stated:
Even after performing the relevant case history, physical examination, and vertebrobasilar function tests, accidents may still occur. There is no conclusive, foolproof screening procedure to eliminate patients at risk. Most victims are young, without [bony] or vascular pathology, and do not present with vertebrobasilar symptoms. The screening procedures described cannot detect those patients in whom [manipulation] may cause an injury. They give a false sense of security to the practitioner [25].
Several medical reports have described chiropractic patients who, after neck manipulation, complained of dizziness and other symptoms of transient loss of blood supply to the brain but were manipulated again and had a full-blown stroke. During a workshop I attended at the 1995 Chiropractic Centennial Celebration, Terrett said such symptoms are ominous and that chiropractors should abandon rotational manipulations that overstretch the vertebral arteries. But, as far as I know, his remarks have not been published and have had no impact on his professional colleagues.
The lack of predictability has been supported by data published by Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD, a chiropractor who has served as an expert witness (usually for the defense) in many court cases involving chiropractic injury. In 1995, he published an abstract summarizing his review of 53 cases that had not been previously reported in medical or chiropractic journals. His report stated:
These cases represent approximately a 45% increase in the number of such cases reported in the English language literature over the past 100 years. . . . No clear cut risk factors can be elicited from the data. Previously proposed risk factors such as migraine headaches, hypertension, diabetes, history of cardiovascular disease, oral contraceptives, recent head or neck trauma, or abnormalities on x-rays do not appear to be significantly greater in patients who have cerebrovascular complications of manipulation than that noted in the general population [26].
Haldeman's main point was he could not identify any factor that could predict that a particular patient was prone to cerebrovascular injury from neck manipulation. This report was published in the proceedings of 1995 Chiropractic Centennial Celebration and was not cited in either the RAND or NCMIC reports.
In 2001, Haldeman and two colleagues published a more detailed analysis that covered 64 cases involving malpractice claims filed between 1978 and 1994 [27]. They reported that 59 (92%) came to treatment with a history of head or neck symptoms. This statistic has been used to assert that any association between manipulation and stroke is coincidental—that because a dissection can produce headache or neck pain, patients who have already had a dissection may seek out care with chiropractors and others. However, it does not explain away what happened to the 8% of patients who had not sought treatment for head or neck pain. Nor can coincidence explain why the association between neck manipulation and stroke occurs more often among patients under age 45 than among older patients.
Haldeman's reports provide insufficient information to judge whether manipulation could have been useful for treating their condition. Of course, malpractice claims don't present the full story, because most victims of professional negligence do not take legal action. Even when serious injury results, some are simply not inclined toward suing, some don't blame the practitioner, some have an aversion to lawyers, and some can't find an attorney willing to represent them.
What Should Be Done?
Chiropractors cannot agree among themselves whether the problem is significant enough to inform patients that vertebrobasilar stroke is a possible complication of manipulation [24,28]. In 1993, the Canadian Chiropractic Association published a consent form which stated, in part:
Doctors of chiropractic, medical doctors, and physical therapists using manual therapy treatments for patients with neck problems such as yours are required to explain that there have been rare cases of injury to a vertebral artery as a result of treatment. Such an injury has been known to cause stroke, sometimes with serious neurological injury. The chances of this happening are extremely remote, approximately 1 per 1 million treatments.
Appropriate tests will be performed on you to help identify if you may be susceptible to that kind of injury. . . . [29].
This notice is a step in the right direction but does not go far enough. A proper consent should disclose that (a) the risk is unknown; (b) alternative treatments may be available; (c) in many cases, neck symptoms will go away without treatment; (d) certain types of neck manipulation carry a higher risk than others; and (e) claims that spinal manipulation can remedy systemic diseases, boost immunity, improve general health, or prolong life have neither scientific justification nor a plausible rationale.
In 2003, a coroner's jury concluded that Lana Dale Lewis of Toronto, Canada, was killed in 1996 by a chiropractic neck manipulation. Among other things, the jury recommended that all patients for whom neck manipulation is recommended be informed that risk exists and that the Ontario Ministry of Health establish a database for chiropractors and other health professionals to report on neck adjustments [30].
In 2005, the Canadian Chiropractic Association published a comprehensive clinical guideline for treatment of adult neck pain not due to whiplash.. Among other things, the document noted that very few studies have compared chiropractic treatment to no treatment, which means that it is difficult to determine the likely benefit of neck manipulation. The guideline also discussed risk factors and recommended that minimal rotation should be used when upper-neck manipulation is done [31,32].
In 2007, following an unnecessary neck manipulation, Sandra Nette developed "locked-in syndrome," a condition that has been described as "the closest thing to being buried alive." She is fully aware of her surroundings and suffers at times from extreme pain. She cannot swallow, speak, or breathe without regular mechanical ventilation and suctioning of her secretions. She cannot move her legs or left arm. Slight use of her right arm enables her to use a computer keyboard to communicate through a voice synthesizer. Her plight was readily apparent in videos posted to YouTube [33]. In 2008, she and her husband filed a class-action lawsuit intended to stop inappropriate chiropractic manipulation and force Canadian regulators to deal with this problem [34]. The court refused to certify a class action [35], but the suit against the chiropractor who treated her proceeded and but was settled with an undisclosed payment [36].
The Bottom Line
As far as I know, most chiropractors do not warn their patients that neck manipulation entails risks. I believe they should and that the profession should implement a reporting system that would enable this matter to be appropriately studied. This might be achieved if (a) state licensing boards required that all such cases be reported, and (b) chiropractic malpractice insurance companies, which now keep their data secret, were required to disclose them to an independently operated database that has input from both medical doctors and chiropractors.
Meanwhile, since stroke is such a devastating event, every effort should be made to stop chiropractors from manipulating necks without adequate reason. Many believe that all types of headaches might be amenable to spinal manipulation even though no scientific evidence supports such a belief. Many include neck manipulation as part of "preventative maintenance" that involves unnecessarily treating people who have no symptoms. Even worse, some chiropractors—often referred to as "upper cervical specialists"—claim that most human ailments are the result of misalignment of the topmost vertebrae (atlas and axis) and that every patient they see needs neck manipulation. Neck manipulation of children under age 12 should be outlawed [37].
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This article was revised on November 26, 2016.


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Even Honda admits that the 2012 Civic, introduced in the spring of 2011, missed the mark. For a company that prides itself on rock-solid reliability, it was a shock last summer when influential Consumer Reports ranked the Civic dead last in a field of 12 compact sedans it tested.
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Mendel said that there is a 45-day supply of 2012 Civics remaining, which should take a few months to sell off. Honda is offering three-year leases on those cars for $149 a month and $1,999 down.
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- Eric Garner died on July 17, 2014 after being put in a police chokehold
- A New York grand jury declined to indict the officer on criminal charges
- Federal officials have been investigating whether there is sufficient evidence to bring civil rights charges
The Justice Department has overhauled the New York-based team probing the death of Eric Garner over a difference in opinion between officials in the city and in Washington on whether civil rights charges should be brought on the federal level, officials familiar with the case told The New York Times.
Garner, 43, died on July 17, 2014 after being put in a chokehold on a Staten Island street corner by an NYPD officer after he was stopped for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The chokehold was captured on video, which showed him calling out "I can't breathe" as he was held down. Garner's dying words became a rallying cry at protests nationwide over police killings of black men amid a nationwide debate over police use of force.
Federal authorities have been investigating whether there's evidence to warrant charges that the officers who confronted Garner deliberately violated his civil rights. But, according to the Times, the investigation has been slowed by disagreement between federal officials in New York and Washington. According to the Times, those investigating the case in New York recommended against bringing federal civil rights charges. Officials in Washington, however, thought there was sufficient evidence to do so.
In a rare shake-up, the Justice Department moved to switch out the investigative team in recent weeks, according to the Times, moving federal prosecutors in Brooklyn off the case and bringing in FBI agents from outside New York to take a fresh look at the evidence.
To bring charges in the Garner case, prosecutors would have to convince a federal grand jury that a crime occurred, according to the Times. That poses additional challenges in the wake of a New York grand jury's 2014 decision not to indict Pantaleo, who remains on desk duty, stripped of his gun and badge, while police officials await the results of the federal probe.
The city medical examiner found the chokehold by Pantaleo contributed to Garner's death. Chokeholds are banned under NYPD policy, but Pantaleo's lawyer said the officer had used a permissible takedown maneuver known as a seatbelt. Pantaleo's attorney has maintained his client didn't violate Garner's civil rights and that he was performing his duties, which he was trained to do.
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Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, called the investigative shake-up "highly unusual and deeply troubling."
"Two separate investigative teams have already spent more than two years reviewing the evidence in this case, without any action. Now, it appears that they are taking a third bite at the apple in an effort to reach a predetermined outcome," Lynch said in a statement. "It is time to end this fishing expedition and let Police Officer Pantaleo move forward."
Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department responded to the Times' request for comment.
Over the summer, on the second anniversary of Garner's death, Garner's sister, Ellisha Garner, said the years-long wait for the Justice Department to conclude its probe has been trying on the family, but that they'd wait as long as it takes to get justice.
Garner's family reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city last year, but relatives said it was not a victory, adding they would keep pushing for federal charges.
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NBC's Brian Williams speaks with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who describes the iconic places on the Jersey Shore that have been wiped out after Sandy, such the boardwalk in Belmar. All that remains is water, sand and debris. Christie said he's committed to rebuilding with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
An ariel shot reveals damage in New Jersey Shore from Superstorm Sandy on Tuesday.
The New Jersey Shore, the East Coast's summer playground, famous for its amusement parks, fine white sand beaches, family vacation cottages and even a reality TV show, could be among areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy.
On Tuesday, stark images of leveled homes, shredded boardwalks, boats tossed blocks inland and acres of sand hurled hundreds of yards from the coast began to emerge.
Aerial video on Thursday from state police via NBC's News10 in Philadelphia showed homes splintered and others surrounded by floodwaters.
In footage from a New Jersey National Guard helicopter, beach homes along Seaside Heights were strewn at odd angles off their foundations, debris was on fire and roads were inundated with sand.
One reader commented on Facebook that it looked like Normandy Beach, site of the allied forces landing in France during World War II.
According to a media pool reporter who accompanied Coast Guard Rear Adm. Steven H. Ratti in a flyover on Tuesday the destruction is extensive. Ratti said he was surprised at the number of washed-out bridges and new inlets carved through New Jersey's barrier Islands. Ratti also noted how unusual it is to see those beach towns so empty.
"Normally you see folks on the beach, cars, but saw little of that today," Ratti said.
In an appearance on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams Tuesday evening, Gov. Chris Christie called the damage "unthinkable."
Watch aerials from the New Jersey State Police of the devastation from Sandy along the New Jersey Shore. Raw video.
"I flew over the Seaside Heights boardwalk today. The roller coaster, the log flume ride are in the ocean," Christie told Williams. "The boardwalk in front of Lucky Leos is gone. It's literally gone. The big sausage and pepper stand in the middle is gone."
Christie said that kind of damage could be seen up and down the Jersey Shore.
"All you see is water and sand and debris where the boardwalk used to be," Christie said of Belmar.
"I'm committed to rebuilding," Christie said. "We're going to do it. It's not only the heart of our economy, it's the soul of New Jersey. The Jersey Shore is the soul of New Jersey."
A dune constructed to protect Point Pleasant Beach was blown away by the storm surge, sending sand far inland, NBC's Ron Mott reported.
Reporting from Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, NBC's Ron Allen reports that the sand dunes designed to help protect the town were spread far and wide once floodwaters hit.
The deadly storm, which hit the Atlantic City dead on and ripped up sections of its famous boardwalk, left more than 2 million people in the state without power and submerged portions of some shore towns, NBC10 in Philadelphia reported.
Related: Superstorm Sandy leaves surreal scenes in its wake
Atlantic City was cut off from the mainland by the storm surge along with other barrier islands, stranding residents who ignored warnings to evacuate. The city's response sparked a feud between the mayor and governor.
A USA Today reporter who visited Fork River spoke to a Beach Haven resident, Erik Zak, who said much of the town was destroyed.
"There are boats on top of decks, garages floated into the bay," he said. "We saw houses on top of boats."
President Barack Obama has declared New Jersey a disaster area, clearing the way for federal disaster assistance to help start cleanup.
On Wednesday, Obama will join Christie in New Jersey for a tour of storm damage and a talk with residents who are recovering from the storm. He will also talk to first responders, according to a White House statement.
Obama called the storm "heartbreaking for the nation."
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Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
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How Riot used social experiments on League of Legends players
League of Legends studio Riot Games explains how it has been using a behavior initiative to conduct subtle experiments on its large player base.
League of Legends traffics a lot of players on a daily basis--12 million at last count. That player count means it's bound to have some bad behavior, but it also gives developer Riot Games plenty of room for testing. It began a series of player behavior initiatives last year, and has detailed the results.
Ars Technica details the initiative, as explained by Riot Games at an MIT lecture, and panels at both PAX East and GDC.
Riot started with a scheme inspired by our own justice system, the Tribunal. It would but offending players on trial with a community-based jury ruling on what it should be done with them. Riot found that 80% of the time, the community agreed with its own punishments, and the other 20% of the time they were more lenient. That community involvement inspired the proper behavior initiative, which launched about a year ago.
Headed by doctors with PhDs in cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, brain and cognitive sciences, and human factors psychology, the initiative made a baseline of what constitutes "bad behavior" using chatlines. Its first experiment was to change the default for cross-team chat, so that players had to switch it on manually. It found a striking 30% difference, even though usage of the feature remained constant. It then found commonalities among the types of words bad players would use (racial and homphobic slurs, mostly), which let them predict which players would be "bad" after a single chat log with up to 80% accuracy.
It's next step was to add more information to players punished by the Tribunal, so they would know what they had done wrong. This showed the doctors a sharp decline in problem behavior after the bans, and what lengths of bans were most effective. Finally, the team decided to reward those participating in the Tribunals by showing individuals their stats, most pointedly how many "toxic days" their rulings had prevented. That led to a 100% increase in Tribunal judge participation.
Since then, Riot has turned its attention toward rewarding good behavior as well, through giving Honors status to players, and "priming" players with messages before matches started. It even offered different colors to attempt to suss out what colors are most effective which which types of messages, but those results have been inconclusive.
The studies on the whole are fascinating if you have an interest in science, so check out the full report for more details.
Steve Watts posted a new article, How Riot used social experiments on League of Legends players.
League of Legends studio Riot Games explains how it has been using a behavior initiative to conduct subtle experiments on its large player base.
Yeah, I got my Teamwork/Leadership Ribbon, and was initially PISSED when I got the Helpful one too, cause I'd rather have the Leadership Yellow. But my Yellow still outnumbers ... Green, I think.
Apparently it's blending your 4 Ratings in some way; like I guess Leadership is Teamwork+Helpful, maybe some Honorable Opponent? I dunno.
I saw a few Blue Ribbons recently. I think that was "Mentor / Super Helpful".


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By attorney Stefanie Moon, Special to THELAW.TV
Workplace discrimination can take many forms. It is illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
No matter what type of discrimination you may be subject to, there are five important things you should know to protect yourself, your job, and your money:
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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan has been diagnosed with cancer. He will not be with the team for the start of spring training so he can focus on treatment and recovery.
The Twins released a statement from Ryan on Monday, describing the recent discovery of a lump in his neck by the team physician during a routine annual physical. The subsequent biopsy revealed squamous cell carcinoma.
Ryan says further tests indicated the cancer appeared to be confined to his neck and had not spread. He says he has been assured his condition is treatable and he remains optimistic about a return to good health "in the near future."
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If you look at the banners in the park, there's a line at the bottom that's been "taped over" with what looks like you guessed it, green tape. Lol is it possible the name was on there or was it a last minute deal they decided to give the chop with the flash sale? I'm curious now.
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A recurring viral attack (no it's not man-flu!) has somewhat restricted activity so this is by way of a four day catch-up. Deep breath in and here we go again…..
THE SEXUAL OBJECTS – I have been meaning to get my act together and check out Davey Henderson's post Nectarine No 9 activities for a while now. The announcement of a gig at Gullivers in March featuring said band and three of my current favourites (Factory Star, Kill Pretty and Taser Puppets) jolted me out of my post-viral fog. "Cucumber" is the name of the album and rather spiffing it is too. It's not that significantly different from his work with the Nectarines other than it is a little less intense/a bit more pop. Another example of one of those great writers hovering around the fringes of the music industry that never quite got the kudos he deserves. Anyway I suggest you check them out either via this album or attending the Gullivers event. Four great bands for £7 has to be a bargain in anyones musical book.
HONG KONG IN THE 60s – I have to thank my chum Keith for pointing me in the direction of this band. So far I have only managed to track down their "Willow Pattern Songs" EP which is a gorgeous delight of a thing. I was immediately drawn in by the arpeggiating guitars, brittle synths and airy vocals of "Footsteps". Their bio on the Soundcloud page says they are Mei Yau Kan – vocals, guitar, keyboards, Christopher Greenberg – keyboards, guitar, vocals, and Tim Scullion – guitar, keyboards, vocals. They say they are heavily influenced by early electronic pop, 1960s Chinese music and Italian film soundtracks. Using their collection of old Casio keyboards, the group combine bittersweet pop melodies and atmospheric electronics to create something pretty special.
THE PABLOS – another excellent find by Mr Tony Thornborough – he shared three of this bands tracks with me which stuffed with garage-ness, Doors-ness and Rolling Stones-ish. They are from Leeds and Lauren Laverne thinks they are groovy so there is no need for me to push them too much as they appear to be well on the way to stardom in the murky world of rock and roll. More info on Facebook in you want…… p.s. the singist does sound like he is channeling Jim M at times…..
DEAN McPHEE – another Keith recommendation. A four track LP called "Son of the Black Peace" which is all ethereal guitars and ambient soundscapes. Not bad but I do wish people wouldn't stick arbitrary lables like "future dub folk" on music like this. It ain't new, there's sod all dub in it, and it ain't folk – well not as we know it, Jim. This sort of thing has been around since the 60s, and came back in the 80s with V Reilly, and it's not clever to try and pigeon hole it as something new, when it quite clearly isn't. And talking of dub…..
CELT ISLAM – the new album "Baghdad" is very good indeed – the marriage of disparate cultural elements works very well indeed.
HERO AND LEANDER's – front lady contacted me recently about some radio play and I've only just got round to listening to their music – and very impressive it is too. Their August EP "Collider" is well worth checking out.
THE UMBILICAL CHORDS – i've mentioned before that I have recently taken delivery of a couple of copies of this duo's demo CD – Paris based but featuring ex-pat Manc Scott Batty, they combine post-punk guitar riffing with half-spoken/half-sung poetry of a very high quality. Not easy listening in terms of the lyrical content with some fairly astute observations on the state of the human psyche and the world in general. "Sex Friend" in particular is full of vivid imagery. They will be in Manchester in March supporting Gabrielles Wish.
SIMON WALDRAM – sent me his "The Day The Signal Died" album a few weeks back. And to be fair to him I've only dipped into it occasionally but I sat down yesterday and gave it a good listen. Chap writes good songs and has a good voice as well. There is a nice acoustic ambient feel to the music, albeit it is a tad dark and introspective in places. He says of the album…."Signal was recorded between June 2008 and December 2010. It's quite dark in places – and was influened by pysch-folk, slowcore, shoegaze etc. Although most of it was recorded at home on an 8-track, quite a lot of work was done on overdubs, mixing and production with Mark Elmore at the Crash Factory, Nottingham. Also Robert Scott added some keyboard arrangements to Falling Down and Another World For You – and Danny Short played some percussion on Another World as well. I think of the album as indie pop meets dark psychedelic folk to soundtrack moments of quiet desperation…or something." Well he is not far wrong with that description, and indeed the linkage with Mr D Short of Horwich is quite relevant as there are elements of both men's work which are comparable. Simon's work is comparable with the more elegaic of Danny's music and to be fair he delivers it with less of the type of "orchestral" layering that you get with Mr Short. If you like the sound of it then check it out at http://simonwaldram.webs.com/apps/webstore ……. and talking of Mr Short….
DDS – the wild and wacky world of Danny Short's more experimental persona DDS has delivered a new EP called "Let the Year Pass By in Peace" in which he eschews formal song structures for three slices of distressed guitar sounds, laminal waves of synthesis, chittering, stuttering, muttering and fluttering. Unlike previous DDS incarnations there are actually vocals on this one, which work very well indeed. And to be fair the closing "Peace and Hope" is a rather lovely piece built around organ and electric piano sounds which then develops associated ambient element. I recommend you check this out on Bandcamp and avail yourself of his previous offerings in this area whilst you are there – the thirty minute piece "Wind Down Window" is a belter!
HANDWITHLEGS – just got round to listening to their "Electric Cave" (short) album from last year which reminds me a little bit of Suicide in places although with a modern rhythmic persona. Quite impressed with this – no doubt some numpty somewhere will describe it as a bit retro but I'm rather fond of their eclectic mix of styles and synthesis. There is enough variety on here to keep the jaded electronicaphile happy for twenty one minutes. A nice selection of sound vignettes.


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Remember when Katie Holmes totally outplayed Tom Cruise and escaped in the middle of the night with a new cell phone and a Hollywood publicity machine that cornered him into giving her a free escape pass and pretty much whatever she wanted?
Tom was interviewed by German television recently while promoting Oblivion and, supposedly, when asked about the situation, finally confirmed that:
"I didn't expect it."
So Katie Holmes really is a ninja.
According to PEOPLE, Tom also explained that her blindsiding right around when he turned 50 gave him perspective:
"I had an unbelievable amount of time to think about it," Cruise says, and found "life is a challenge. To be 50 and to have experiences and to think, you have a grip on everything, and then it hits you: This is it, what life can do to you."
His current philosophy is that:
"Life is a tragicomedy. You need to have a sense of humour."
Tragicomedy? How very James Franco.
Unfortunately, when it comes to these situations, and especially in translation, Euro outlets can be unreliable. Already Gossip Cop is saying that Tom's rep is saying that his comments were taken out of context. As if that would change your mind, right?
Here's Tom making dumplings and buns in Taiwan the other day.


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/var/opinion - Parallel Is Coming into Its Own
I started writing about computing back in the 1980s. I don't want to say which year, or do the math for how long I've been doing this. It makes me feel old.
I've made a plethora of predictions since then. Some of them left me red-faced and embarrassed. Some of them were spot-on. Some of them have not yet been fulfilled, but I still think my predictions are on target.
One of my earliest predictions was rather easy, but it was considered controversial back in the 1980s. I said that it was only a matter of time before we bumped up against the limits of Moore's Law, and the only viable answer would be parallel processing. Lo and behold, dual-core processors are now common, and it won't be long before we see quad-core processors, and the multicore cell processor in the PlayStation 3 is around the corner.
Naturally, the next logical step is clustering or other means of distributed processing. Here's where I begin to get nervous. When "grid computing" became a buzzword, my knee-jerk reaction was, "no, thanks". I don't work in a company office anymore, but if I did, I wouldn't want the company off-loading processing to my desktop workstation unless I was certain that everything ran in a completely isolated sandbox. Put the grid processes in a chroot environment on Linux, for example. Even then, I'm not sure I'd be happy about the idea. What if I want to do something compute-intensive, and the grid process decides it wants my CPU cycles more than I do? This isn't supposed to happen, but since it's all in the hands of some administrator with his or her own agenda, why should I trust that it won't happen?
It's the lack of control and fear of security breaches that make me nervous. I've got four computers in my home that nobody ever turns off, and two more for special purposes that I turn on as needed. The two hand-me-down computers my kids use sit idle much of the time, unless my daughter is browsing the Web, or my son is playing World of Warcraft. I use a server as a centralized provider of resources such as printers, files and e-mail. It's a very old machine, but it never breaks a sweat given its purpose. All this represents a tremendous amount of wasted processing power. I'd love to tap in to that unused power at home. This is a safe environment, because I'm not talking about exposing my processing power to everyone on the Internet. I'm talking about distributing workloads across local machines.
In principle, however, Sun was right all along when it said, "the network is the computer". Other companies, such as IBM, worked along the same lines before Sun did, but I don't know of any company that said it better than Sun. "The network is the computer" is a powerful phrase. As long as there is adequate security built in to every aspect of distributed processing, it makes perfect sense to provide common services as remote procedure calls and distribute every conceivable workload across as many computers as you want to make available to the system. If someone could make me feel comfortable about security and control, I'd buy into distributed processing in a big way.
Here are the challenges as I see them. First, there's the problem of heterogeneous platforms. How do you distribute a workload across machines with different processors and different operating systems? ProActive is one of several good platform-agnostic distributed computing platforms (see www-sop.inria.fr/oasis/ProActive). It is 100% pure Java, so it runs on any platform that supports Java. It has a great graphical interface that lets you manage the way you distribute the load of a job. You can literally drag a process from one computer and drop it onto another.
The problem is that a tool like ProActive doesn't lend itself to the way I want to distribute computing. I want it to be as transparent as plugging a dual-core processor in to my machine. Unfortunately, you can't get this kind of transparency even if you run Linux on all your boxes. The closest thing to it that I can think of is distcc, which lets you distribute the workload when you compile programs. Even this requires you to have the same version of compiler (and perhaps some other tools) on all your boxes. If you want this to be a no-brainer, you pretty much have to install the same distro of Linux on all your machines.
The bottom line here is that I smell an opportunity for Linux. I would love to see a project that makes distributed computing on Linux brainlessly transparent and distribution-agnostic. I'm talking about the ability to start up any computation-intensive application and have it automatically distribute the work across other machines on the network configured to accept the role as yet another "processor core". You can make this transparent to the application by building it into the core user-space APIs. You manage it like you would any other network service. Is this too pie in the sky? I'd love to hear your opinions.
Nicholas Petreley is Editor in Chief of Linux Journal and a former programmer, teacher, analyst and consultant who has been working with and writing about Linux for more than ten years.


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An Invitation to My First Signings for My Debut Cookbook, "San Francisco Chef's Table"
I'm still in a daze about it — but thrilled to announce — the publication of my first cookbook, "San Francisco Chef's Table" (Lyons Press), which will be released in early December.
The book spotlights 54 of the Bay Area's top restaurants and their signature recipes, along with gorgeous photos by Craig Lee, the former photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle's Food section.
Craig and I will be signing copies of the book at upcoming events with some of the chefs featured in the cookbook. We hope you'll be able to join us to share in the excitement. Mark you calendar now:


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Panel begins task of responding to Newtown
HARTFORD — A panel charged by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy with recommending a broad range of state policy changes after the deadly Newtown school shooting began its work Thursday, urged to focus on the issue of mental health and how it can intersect with gun violence.
The panel embarked on the task as the top prosecutor in the case, Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, said he's prevented from turning over information about the shooter's mental health background.
But Malloy said even though the mental condition the late shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, won't be available to the commission, he believes the group can address ways to improve mental health care and reduce the stigma of seeking treatment, a key focus of the 16-member panel of experts.
"That incident is an isolated incident, but we know a lot about other incidences and mental health issues," he said, adding how Vice President Joe Biden's recommendations to the president also looked beyond the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "We know a lot about mental health. We know that mental health treatment is stigmatized in the United States to a greater extent than it is in many other countries and we need to move in a direction where it is less stigmatized."
Sedensky, meanwhile, said the case remains under investigation and could take until June before a report is ready from the state police. He acknowledged, however, that no prosecution "appears on the horizon" for the crime that left 20 first graders and six educators dead. Lanza also killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the Newtown home they shared and later committed suicide as police approached the school.
Sedensky said while Lanza's mental health information is privileged, he expressed a willingness to work with the commission, which is charged with the wide-ranging task of reviewing school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention and providing the governor with recommendations for law and policy changes.
"Anything that would not encumber or somehow hinder the investigation, we will try to provide you with," Sedensky said. "At the same time, we may have limitations based on the confidentiality, but we will strive to get you what you need."
Commission members on Thursday received advice from two members of similar panels created after school shootings that occurred in Colorado and Virginia.
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a member of the panel that reviewed the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, urged the Connecticut group to focus on the intersection of mental health and gun violence. He said "incident after incident" since Columbine has shown there's a relationship between the two issues.
"What we don't want is a policy debate in this country, I think, or in Connecticut, that gets locked down around the polar opposites around gun control or the polar opposites around mental health or mental health funding," Ritter said. "Part of this has to be this broad discussion and a discussion about the intersection."
Ritter, who was Denver's district attorney at the time of the Columbine shooting and was sent to the school that day, told commission members that many people are watching Connecticut and how it responds to the Newtown massacre. He said the panel has the opportunity to "actually make a difference," saying "you can end up saving lives at some point in the future." The report from Columbine led to national changes in how police respond to such events.
"As much as our investigation at Columbine was about a high school shooting in Littleton, Colo., the audience wound up being the community Littletown, the state of Colorado, the nation, and I venture to say even beyond that," he said. "Because of just the horrific nature of this, I think you can expect that your audience will be the people of Newtown, certainly, the people of Connecticut, but the nation watches. And the nation asks questions and wants to understand why and how these kinds of tragic events continue to occur."
Virginia Law Professor Richard Bonnie, a consultant to then-Virginia Gov. Tim Kane's review panel of the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, warned the Connecticut commission against feeling pressure to act too quickly in recommending policy changes in the wake of Newtown. He said it could take the group two years to ultimately finish its work.
Bonnie warned that acting prematurely could lead to "disproportionate responses," such as eroding privacy rights for the mentally ill.
Malloy, a Democrat, said Thursday he understands the process should be deliberative, but urged the members to forward any early ideas for possible legislative action this session. Bonnie said the Virginia Tech commission also forwarded earlier recommendations, and eventually a larger package of reforms.
The panel, led by Hamden Mayor Scott Jackson, includes mental health and public safety experts, such as the University of Connecticut police chief, the chief psychiatrist at Hartford Hospital's Institute for Living, and the director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement. There is also a security consultant, a former state representative from Newtown and a Newtown Middle School teacher among the varied group.


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Oops! CEO of Corporate Front Network Lied to Reporters - State Policy Network
Last week, the Center for Media and Democracy and ProgressNow released a series of reports on how the State Policy Network coordinates an agenda carried out by affiliate "Stink Tanks" in all 50 states. Responding to questions from reporters, SPN's CEO Tracie Sharp demanded that each of the seemingly independent groups were "fiercely independent."
But Jane Mayer at the New Yorker reports Tracie Sharp said the opposite to attendees of SPN's recent annual meeting. In Oklahoma City last September, Ms. Sharp plainly told her associates how to coordinate a broad agenda and pander directly to the interests of billionaire funders like the Koch brothers and the Searle family for grants:
Sharp went on to say that, like IKEA, the central organization would provide "the raw materials" along with the "services" needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. "Pick what you need," she said, "and customize it for what works best for you." During the meeting,
Sharp also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. "The grants are driven by donor intent," she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, "the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen." She said that the donors also sometimes determined in which states their money would be spent.
Tracie Sharp responded to the New Yorker with a generic statement that didn't address her contradictory statements. And who knows if there's anything useful she could say at this point, The State Policy Network was just caught with its pants down.
For those who don't spend their days reading about the inner workings of the corporate-conservative political machine, the State Policy Network isn't a familiar name. But it's an important entity. SPN serves as the umbrella of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and all of its state and national allies pushing a coordinated corporate-friendly agenda through all 50 states.
SPN and ALEC have led the coordinated attack on clean energy in states like North Carolina, Kansas and now Ohio. Dozens of SPN groups are longtime players in the Koch-funded climate change denial movement. By orchestrating against policies to lessen global warming impacts or by directly undermining the science, SPN's efforts have ranged from urging inaction on global climate treaties and forcing teachers to misrepresent climate science to their students.
Beyond shilling for the coal, oil, gas and nuclear companies bankrolling ALEC and SPN's operations, these coordinated entities attack public employee unions, wages and pensions, block Medicaid expansion, suppress legitimate voters, push to defund and privatize schools, and undermine choice in women's health.
And who pays for SPN's work in all 50 states?
SPN's main purpose is to advance the interests of its corporate funders: dirty coal and petrochemical industries, the tobacco giants, agribusiness, pharmaceutical companies, private education firms, tech and telecom companies, and the usual web of trade associations, law firms and lobby shops paid to represent each of those industries. Corporations use SPN to advance political campaigns they are typically embarrassed to associate with publicly.
The State Policy Network also serves to advance an ideological agenda that tends to undermine the interests of most Americans in favor of those who are particularly wealthy and well-connected.
The Koch brothers fit this description, of course. But they're joined by a legion of lesser known multi-millionaires and billionaires, sometimes coordinating directly with the Kochs.
These SPN funders include Richard Mellon Scaife, Phil Anschutz, Art Pope, the Coors family, the DeVos family, the Searle family, and the remains of the Bradley family fortune, to name a few of the better known of these sources of dark money. Few citizens recognize the names of this quiet minority of political puppetmasters, but people still feel the bruise of plutocratic spending as state and national politics are pushed to new extremes.
More on the State Policy Network can be read in the National Stink Tanks report. SourceWatch has the full list of SPN members and affiliates and SPN funders.


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We're just a couple of weeks in, but living with Liz has been joyfully easy. Mostly because we're rarely at home at the same time.
She works over an hour away – so she's out of the house by the time that I'm up every morning. (Or she's supposed to be, anyway. No matter how late she's running, she's gone by the time I'm out of the shower.) And because Liz works over an hour away, and oftentimes puts in long hours at the office, on the evenings that I am home, she typically doesn't arrive until after dinnertime.
On the days that I leave work at a normal hour, I go home and take the dog out and fix myself supper. I change and go to the gym or go about whatever it is that I need to go about (last night it was making playlists in iTunes before leaving for an annoyingly late hockey game).
On days that I work late, by the time I get home she's usually lounging around with the dog and sometimes her sister and sometimes a friend. I plop down on the couch next to her (and the dog and maybe a guest) for a few minutes of Real Housewives of Wherever while I eat dinner. Having not been bit by the Real Housewives bug, I usually abandon the show for a book/my laptop/my phone/a shower shortly after I'm finished with dinner.
Last night – when I left work at 5:00 and had a hockey game at 9:00 – I saw Liz for 20 minutes.
Tonight – when I'll get home around 9:30 – I'll see Liz for an hour or so.
In terms of living with someone who isn't your life partner, it's sort of the ideal situation. Not too much time together. Assures the dog gets let out on a regular basis. Both of our cars fit in the garage.
And I'm living in a brand new house and not paying the mortgage.
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I recall the moment it became clear to me that American Christian higher education was in trouble. It was May 2008, and I was visiting the South African Theological Seminary in Rivonia, near Johannesburg. As the website puts it, the school focuses "on equipping you for service, right where you are in your local church." To this end, it offers distance education only. This is no fly-by-night startup, but is accredited by the South African Council on Higher Education. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates in theology.
And at pennies on the dollar. The school intends to educate African pastors who can't afford to leave their ministries, move to greater Johannesburg, and study for two to three years. In addition, the programs have to be affordable. Affordable indeed: An M.Th. degree is a two-year program that costs $2,000 a year. At a typical American seminary, that is about the cost of two classes.
Naturally, students from the West could enroll—at a fraction of the cost of attending schools on their own continents—and still receiving a degree recognized by a national accrediting body of a developed nation.
Compare this with the situation in North America, where the cost of tuition at American colleges (public and private) rose from 23.2 percent of median annual earnings to nearly 39 percent between 2001 and 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the rise in tuition apparently is not keeping up with the cost of a traditional on-campus education. A 2012 Bain Brief study "The Financially Sustainable University" found the a third of all American colleges and universities were not sustainable. The list of financially troubled schools ...1
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Worst crash: The driver of a teal '93 Geo Metro, who was being pursued by a Louisa County deputy sheriff for reckless driving and having no tags, is killed when he crashes into a tree on Route 22 in Albemarle May 26 and the car bursts into flames. At press time, police had not identified the driver.
Worst t-bone crash: A Ford Explorer seriously injures the female driver of a Hyundai leaving Fashion Square Mall May 26. Jorge Avila, 37, is charged with DUI, malicious wounding, failing to stop for a red light, and no driver's license.
Worst alleged post-crash behavior: Culpeper resident Fielding Taylor Kines, 38, is charged with felony manslaughter after police find the body of his girlfriend's son, eight-year-old Orion Bickings, in the trunk of Kines' car, according to an AP account. Police say Kines threw the child's body into the trunk of his wrecked vehicle May 16.
Worst charges: Scottsville resident Barry Lee Powell, 28, is charged with forcible sodomy of a child under the age of 10 in an alleged May 9 incident.
Most homeless: At least 35 people will be out on the streets when the Hope Community Center closes this week, after running afoul of city zoning and fire regulations. Seth Rosen has the story in the Daily Progress.
Most unusual shelter solution: Charlottesville considers buying a $10,000 yurt for tent-dwelling Angus Road resident Pauline E. Mallard, according to another Rosen report. Mallard, 79 and wheelchair bound, once lived in a station wagon on the lot where her house burned down in 1978 and has vexed her neighbors for decades with her unkempt property.
Most un-teacherly behavior: Staunton teacher Heidi Marie Dorn, 34, is charged with three felony counts of threatening to bomb Shelburne Middle School and four felony counts of threatening to do bodily injury, NBC29 reports. Dorn is accused of leaving threatening notes in the school on three occasions in February.
Most surprising 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision: A panel rules 2-1 May 20 that Virginia's law banning partial-birth abortions is still unconstitutional, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar federal ban and instructed the Richmond-based court to take another look at its decision.
Most patents: Seventy-five UVA inventors received patents in 2007, according to a release.
Most dedicated Miller's patron: Reyn Louise Snelling, 45, is arrested the early morning hours of May 25 when police respond to an alarm inside the then-closed-for-evening Downtown Mall watering hole. WCAV has the story.
Latest in the UVA football player credit card-theft saga: J'Courtney Williams, 19, a former first-year linebacker, and Lester Guy Spellman III spend four days in jail starting May 22 for stealing another student's ID and using the card to rack up vending machine food charges, according to Tasha Kates in the Progress.
Latest Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner honor: He's elected chair of the Department of Homeland Security's executive committee that makes sure emergency responders can communicate.
Worst pit bull mauling: Two-and-a-half pound Pomeranian Shelby is killed May 22 in the Woodlake neighborhood when a pit bull knocks down her owner, Beverly Lecuyer, and tears into the small pooch, Brian McNeill reports in the Progress.
Worst spewing: A construction crew slices a pipe under the intersection of U.S. 29 and East Rio Road May 22, sending 40,000 gallons of water spurting 15 feet in the air, according to a DP account.
Worst literary loss: UVA writing prof and former Virginia poet laureate George Garrett, 78, dies May 25 in his Rugby Road home.
Fondest farewells: Plan 9 and Satellite Ballroom on the Corner turn off the lights for good May 24.


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Holiday Tour Package To Palitana Sasan Gir
- Accommodation in a well appointed room
- Meal as per hotel plan
- All transfers and sightseeing as per the itinerary in an air-conditioned vehicle.
- All Toll taxes, Parking & State Tax.
- 5% government service tax
- Entrance and Jeep safari.
- All personal expenses, optional tours and extra meals
- Camera fees, monument and museum entrance fees at the tourist attractions mentioned in the itinerary
- Tips, laundry and phone calls
- Vehicle service on leisure days and for sightseeing not included in the itinerary
- All alcoholic/aerated beverages, mineral water and starters
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Day 1 – Arrive in Ahmedabad | Sightseeing in Ahmedabad
You will get help on your landing in Ahmedabad. Check in at the inn. Afterward, visit the Gandhi Ashram along the banks of the stream Sabarmati. Mahatma Gandhi set out on his Dandi walk from this ashram. It has now been changed over into a historical center. See mind boggling carvings at the Hate Singh Jain Temple and respect the fantastic engineering of the Akshardham Temple. Remain medium-term at the lodging.
Holiday Tour Package To Palitana Sasan Gir
Day 2 – Drive from Ahmedabad to Jamnagar (330 km/approx. 6 hours) | Sightseeing in Jamnagar
Look at from the inn and drive to Jamnagar. On your way, visit an antiquated and perfectly cut advance well. At night, go to the Bala Hanuman Temple. This sanctuary is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for the constant reciting of 'Shri Ram, Jai Ram, Jai Ram' by its fans since 1964. Medium-term in Jamnagar.
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Day 3 – Drive from Jamnagar to Dwarka (150 km/approx. 3 hours) | Sightseeing in Dwarka
Look at from the inn and drive to Dwarka. Check in at the inn and invest some energy at your recreation. After lunch, visit Beyt Dwarka, accepted to be the first habitation Lord Krishna. The Nageshwar Jyotirlinga Temple is home to one of the 12 svayambhu (self-existent) Jyotirlingas on the planet. Visit the Gopi Talav, the lake where gopis are said to have rejoined with Lord Krishna. The Rukmini Devi Temple is committed to the spouse of Lord Krishna. Remain medium-term at the lodging in Dwarka.
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Day 4 – Drive from Dwarka to Somnath (240 km/approx. 5 hours) | Sightseeing in Porbandar and Somnath
Travel to SomnathOn your way, visit the Kirti Mandir in Porbandar, the haveli in which Mahatma Gandhi was conceived. It is presently a historical center. Additionally, visit the Sudama Temple, worked to respect the fellowship among Krishna and Sudama. Once in Somnath, go to the Somnath Temple which is arranged by the ocean and the Bhalka Tirth Temple where Lord Krishna is said to have been unintentionally shot in the foot. Medium-term in Somnath.
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Day 5 – Drive from Somnath to Gir (50 km/approx. 1.5 hours) | Jungle safari
Look at from the lodging and drive to Gir. Sasan Gir is known for being the main timberland outside of Africa to have wild lions. Gir likewise has an extensive panther populace. Its other creature species incorporate the sambar, spotted deer, nilgai and the chowsingha (the world's solitary four-horned gazelle). Indeed, even crocodiles can be found in the supply and streams coursing through the haven. Go on an evening safari in the National Park by paying straightforwardly at the Park. Remain medium-term in Gir.
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Day 6 – Drive from Gir to Ahmedabad (415 km/approx. 8 hours) | Depart from Ahmedabad
Look at from the inn and drive to the Ahmedabad Airport for your arrival venture.


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